Guten Tag! 2.5 Nationalities

Nouns of nationality

The German construction for saying which nationality you are is different from in English. wheras English uses an adjective - i.e. "I am English" -, German uses a noun without a different article - "Ich bin Engländer" (literally: "I am Englishman").

 

And just as there are different words for "friend" depending on the gender of the person concerned, you would need to employ the feminine version of the noun if the person being described is a woman - "Ich bin Engländerin" (literally: "I am Englishwoman"):